"relegation in 1990. The Woolwich Equitable Building Society demutualised in 1997, giving up its mutual status to become a bank: Woolwich PLC was formed, giving shares to investing and borrowing members of the society, and listing on the London Stock Exchange. In August 2000, Barclays took over Woolwich PLC in a £5.4bn acquisition. Woolwich PLC thus joined the Barclays Bank Group of companies. The Woolwich brand-name was retained after the acquisition, and the Woolwich head office remained in Bexleyheath, south-east London, 4.5 mi from the original office in Woolwich. On 28 June 2006, Barclays announced that The Woolwich was to"
"20th century, but with the number of personnel based in Woolwich having steadily decreased, the site was in 2002 declared surplus to requirements. Durkan Group bought the Woolwich site by public tender in 2006 and redevelopment started in 2008. The Woolwich buildings, several of which are grade II listed, are now being converted and extended into 334 houses and apartments, including 150 for a housing association. In 2017 the scaffolding around the main facade has been removed and refurbishment is nearing completion. Since 2013 the RMA cricket field, one of the oldest in the UK, is being used again by"
"over sponsorship of the Premier League from Barclaycard in 2004. In May 2005, Barclays moved its group headquarters from Lombard Street in the City of London to One Churchill Place in Canary Wharf. Also in 2005 Barclays sealed a £2.6bn takeover of Absa Group Limited, South Africa's largest retail bank, acquiring a 54% stake on 27 July 2005. Then in 2006, Barclays purchased the HomEq Servicing Corporation for US$469 million in cash from Wachovia Corp. That year also saw the acquisition of the financial website CompareTheLoan and Barclays announcing plans to rebrand Woolwich branches as Barclays, migrating Woolwich customers onto"
"Swansea & Gower Permanent, and the Warrington Workingmens' Permanent. In 1999, the Birmingham Midshires Building Society agreed to a takeover bid from the Royal Bank of Scotland. However the deal collapsed when Halifax plc tabled a more lucrative offer. Halifax itself became a part of HBOS plc when it merged with the Bank of Scotland in 2001. In 2007, it became a division of Bank of Scotland plc following a reorganisation in the HBOS Group. On 15 September 2005 Birmingham Midshires announced it was planning to close 48 of its 67 branches, through a phased programme concluding in March 2006,"
"IOOF. The bank received its operating licence in 2000 and absorbed the First Australian Building Society in Queensland, acquiring a new regional headquarters in Ipswich. That same year saw a A$75 million head office expansion in Bendigo. In 2002 Bendigo Bank introduced the first ""Green Loans"" in Australia and formed ""Community Sector Banking"", a banking joint venture with the not-for-profit sector. Three years later, Bendigo Bank built a regional headquarters on Harbour Esplanade in Melbourne, Docklands. In 2007 Bendigo Bank rejected Bank of Queensland's merger/takeover proposal, and merged with Adelaide Bank. The A$4 billion takeover was completed on 30 November."
"parent Society: Hockleys Professional Limited, trading as Hockleys Surveyors, was acquired by estate agents Connells Residential Ltd. in 2007. The trade of Norwich and Peterborough Estate Agents Ltd., Gibraltar, was divested in 2010. Norwich and Peterborough Building Society Norwich & Peterborough Building Society (or N&P) is a trading name of Yorkshire Building Society based in Bradford, West Yorkshire. At the time of merger with YBS, it was the ninth largest building society in the United Kingdom, with assets in excess of £4.9 billion. It was formed by the merger of the Norwich and Peterborough building societies in 1986. The Society"
"their money was safe and that the building society was backed by the state government. In 1977 it donated the 'Malls Balls' (""The Spheres"" by Herbert Flugelman) to the City of Adelaide to mark the centenary of the society. The Co-operative Building Society of South Australia Limited was founded by Alwin Fischer and incorporated in 1900, and by 1990, the building society's asset base passed the $1 billion mark. In 1992 the Society amalgamated with the Hindmarsh Building Society. Adelaide Bank was established on 1 January 1994 from the Co-operative Building Society of South Australia Limited, which was Australia's largest"
"club, calculated on the average total balance held in all of their supporters' accounts. There were eventually 27 clubs participating online. The Society only offered mortgage facilities for properties in England, Wales, Gibraltar or situated in defined geographical areas of the Costa del Sol and the Costa Blanca, Spain. In 2007, it became one of the first building societies to achieve the CarbonNeutral quality mark. Yorkshire Building Society (trading as Norwich & Peterborough) is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority. It is a member of the Building Societies Association and the LINK Interchange Network. As a current account"
"branches across 11 counties including in city centre on Parliament Street, Beeston, Bulwell, Mapperley, Sherwood on Mansfield Road, and Wollaton. It has many of its branches in the county of Nottinghamshire, Hertfordshire and others in Lincolnshire, Derbyshire and Sheffield. In 1970 it acquired the Grantham Building Society and has taken on branches destined for closure from Banco Santander, The Co-operative Bank, Derbyshire Building Society, Shepshed Building Society and Yorkshire Building Society. In July 2017, The Nottingham Building Society added to its branch network by acquiring seven locations from the Norwich and Peterborough Building Society. Nottingham Building Society The Nottingham Building"
"of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (1985/1986). He was elected President of the British Computer Society for its 40th anniversary year 1997–98. On retirement from C&L Jenkins joined the Board of the Woolwich Building Society becoming chairman in 1995. In 1997 the Woolwich demutualised and joined the FTSE 100 as Woolwich plc. In 2000 the Woolwich shareholders accepted an offer from Barclays and Jenkins spent his last years in business as Deputy Chairman of Barclays, retiring in 2004. During his career Jenkins served as a non-executive director of a number of organisations, including the Royal Ordnance Factories, Commission for"
"shares from the bank, thus owning the building outright. On completion, the Woolworth building topped the record set by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower as the world's tallest building. The building was owned by the Woolworth company for 85 years until 1998, when the Venator Group (formerly the F. W. Woolworth Company) sold it to the Witkoff Group for $155 million. Until recently, that company kept a presence in the building through a Foot Locker store (Foot Locker is the successor to the Woolworth Company). Prior to the September 11 attacks, the World Trade Center was often photographed in"
"of £5,590. The building was completed and opened in January 1893. In 1927 the Western Australian Bank merged with the Bank of New South Wales, and the building became known as the Bank of New South Wales building. The branch manager, Lionel Wesley Walker, was found shot at South Beach later the same year. In 1982 the Bank of New South Wales merged with the Commercial Bank of Australia to form Westpac Banking Corporation, who retained ownership until 1999. The University of Notre Dame Australia acquired the building in 2000 for 1.5 million to use it as a health college."
"2007, the society became part of the Nationwide on 28 August 2007. When the merger was announced it was anticipated that it would result in 900 redundancies. The Portman chief executive Robert Sharpe received a golden handshake of £1.7m and a pension worth £152,000 per year. He subsequently became chief executive of West Bromwich Building Society. Portman Building Society The Portman Building Society was a mutual building society in the United Kingdom, providing mortgages and savings accounts to consumers and offering loans to commercial enterprises. Its head office was in Bournemouth and its administration centre in Wolverhampton. Portman merged with"
"sale of the Broadway Shopping Centre to new owners. In 2012, the local council approved plans to relocate its offices into the former headquarters of The Woolwich, which had been vacant since 2006. The existing civic offices were going to become a Tesco supermarket (previously Tesco had acquired the Woolwich HQ site). In June 2018, housebuilder Bellway received planning permission to build 518 homes, including 110 affordable ones, on the former civic office site. The development will include Bexleyheath's tallest building (13 storeys), public realm improvements and new commercial floorspace. With the expansion in retail space, Bexleyheath has drawn many"
"of the Customer Owned Banking Association (COBA). In 2013, the Bank was named Building Society of the Year for customer satisfaction by Roy Morgan Research, as judged by more than 50,000 consumers and 22,000 business decision-makers. This was followed up by wins in the Roy Morgan Research Bank of the Year category in 2016 & 2017. In 1924, Mr FW Lean and Mr KA Mathieson Snr formed the Newcastle and Hunter River Public Service Starr-Bowkett Building Cooperative Society Ltd, a Starr-Bowkett society, in response to unemployment and economic depression in Newcastle, New South Wales. By providing interest-free home loans to"
"in North Queensland and ""First Provincial Building Society"" in Southern Queensland, with a total of 48 branches and 20 agencies across Queensland, and 430 staff. The building society was listed on the Australian Stock Exchange as ""FST"". On 5 June 2000 First Australian and Bendigo Bank announced a merger and on 1 September 2001 the merger completed. Directors Neal Axelby and Terry O'Dwyer were appointed to the board of Bendigo Bank. First Australian Building Society First Australian Building Society was a building society that operated in Queensland between 1997 and 2000. The Ipswich and West Moreton Building Society, established in"
"loan application processing and mortgage loan subservicing in the United Kingdom. Following the acquisition of Woolwich by Barclays plc, this relationship developed further, with GHL acquiring the Barclays mortgage portfolio, through a transfer of ownership of the Barclays mortgage operation in Leeds to GHL in 2003. By 2005, GHL operation processed more than £11.3 billion ($20.3 billion) in loans, all of which are subserviced for Barclays, PLC, the joint venture partner. As of December 31, 2005, Global's subservicing portfolio was £59 billion ($102 billion). In November 2005, Barclays announced that it intended to terminate the third party administration arrangement with"
"tall and had over 5,000 windows. The construction cost was . With Irving National Exchange Bank Woolworth set up the Broadway-Park Place Company to finance the building, but by May 1914, had purchased all of the shares from the bank, thus owning the building outright. On completion, the Woolworth Building topped the record set by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower, near Madison Square Park, as the world's tallest building. The construction cost was . With Irving National Exchange Bank Woolworth set up the Broadway-Park Place Company to finance the building, but by May 1914, had purchased all of the"
"the Roaring Twenties, the building was designed to reflect the architecture of the Green and its three historic churches; the building's golden cupola intentionally mirrors that of the Green's United Church. The Union Trust Company moved its headquarters to Stamford in 1981, but kept a branch on the ground floor. The bank was purchased in 1995 by First Union Corporation, which later took the name of its Wachovia acquisition and in 2010 merged into Wells Fargo. The building's ground floor is still occupied by a Wells Fargo branch. On March 28, 2013, Cooper Church LLC, a New York-based developer, purchased"
"1981 by the merger of Toowoomba Permanent Building Society (est. 1875) and the Darling Downs Building Society (est. 1897). In 2011 the organisation changed its name to Heritage Bank. Heritage Bank is a mutual organisation where it is owned by its members, not by shareholders. Heritage is also a member of the Customer Owned Banking Association. Heritage provides retail, business and agribusiness banking services as well as superannuation, insurance products and financial planning. In October 2009, Heritage was the first mutual Authorised Deposit-taking Institution (ADI) to initiate an ASX listed debt transaction. Heritage raised $50 million from the issue of"
"in 1993. It prided itself on making affordable home loans available to people with lower than average incomes, giving a high proportion of its home loans to single women. Vincent Byrne retired from the Society in 1967, remaining as Honorary President until his death, aged 70, in 1978. He was succeeded by the Duke of Norfolk and subsequently by Nona Byrne. The Catholic Building Society and Chelsea Building Society merged in December 2008 under the Chelsea name. The Chelsea merged with the Yorkshire Building Society in April 2010. On 5 July 2014, a firm called the Fair Investment Company of"
"Swansea Building Society The Swansea Building Society, (), is a building society based in Swansea, Wales. It is a member of the Building Societies Association. The Society was founded in 1923. Today it is one of only three remaining mutual building societies in Wales and claims to be only building society or bank with its headquarters in West Wales. At 31 December 2009, the Society's total assets were over £182m with over 8,000 savers accounts and 1,100 mortgage customers. The chief executive is Alun Williams. Swansea Building Society benefited from the Icelandic financial crisis in 2009, as local savers looked"
"renamed Oasis Academy Immingham. Supermarket retailers Somerfield took over a former Kwik Save shop at Kennedy Way c.2006; the branch became part of the Co-op after the takeover of the chain in 2010; in 2014 the Co-op announced it was to close the shop (closed September 2014). Supermarket chain Aldi acquired the site in 2014 with the aim of opening a new store in 2015; the store was opened in May 2015 by the Mayor of Immingham. The town's Yorkshire Bank closed in August 2009 after 40 years of operation. the Norwich and Peterborough Building Society closed their Immingham office"
"Brian Garton Jenkins Sir Brian Garton Jenkins (born 3 December 1935) is a retired English chartered accountant and business man who was President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales in 1985/86, Lord Mayor of the City of London in 1991/92, and Chairman of Woolwich plc 1995/2000. Jenkins was born in Beckenham, Kent and educated at Tonbridge School (where he was a Scholar and leaving exhibitioner) and Trinity College, Oxford (where he was a State Scholar). Between school and university he was in the Army for National Service being commissioned into the Royal Artillery in Gibraltar. Jenkins"
"subsidiary of the Spanish Santander Group, with a rebrand following in February 2005. In January 2010, the savings business of Bradford & Bingley was combined with the bank, and Abbey National plc was renamed Santander UK plc. Prior to the takeover, Abbey National plc was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. The National Freehold Land Society, officially named the National Permanent Mutual Benefit Building Society to give it legal existence under the Building Societies Act 1836, was established by two Liberal members of parliament, Sir Joshua Walmsley and Richard Cobden, in 1849, joined a year later by John Bright."
"Stoke-on-Trent Permanent (1980), Alfreton (1981), Wellington (Somerset) and District (1981), Denton (1981), Over Darwen (1981), Driffield (1982), Colne (1983), Welsh Economic (1984), Blackheath (1986) and Mornington (1991) building societies. The most recent acquisition was the deposit base and branch network of former building society Bristol & West (bringing with it approximately 700,000 customers) from Bank of Ireland in May 2005. This was the first major re-mutualisation in the United Kingdom (following the earlier demutualisation trend) and brought membership of the enlarged society to just under three million. Bank of Ireland retained ownership of the Bristol & West brand and all"
"its first supermarket in 1961 in a converted cinema; it turned over £17.6bn in 2015, and is the region's second largest company. Also in Bradford are Club 18-30, Provident Financial, Seabrook Potato Crisps, Safestyle UK, Yorkshire Building Society, Stylo, the Grattan (owned by Otto GmbH since 2000) catalogue retailer, and Yorkshire Water. Santander UK (former Abbey) has its savings division there. The Halifax bank (former Building Society) is based in Halifax, the Yorkshire Bank (owned by CYBG plc and the National Australia Bank) and Leeds Building Society in Leeds, and with UK Asset Resolution (former Bradford & Bingley) and NRAM"
"building, and in 2000 the Bank occupied around 20 floors in the building. In 2002, Valad purchased a half-share in the tower for $92.5 million, which it then sold to Stockland in early 2007. Meanwhile, Multiplex acquired its half-stake in the tower from its merger with Ronin Property Group which was proposed in late 2004. Brookfield Multiplex put its half share in the building up for sale in early 2008, however an offer for the tower by Luke Saraceni fell through and the half share in the tower was taken off the property market. Bankwest announced in 2006 that it"
"to lease them as office space. The project will cost approximately $150 million including its $68 million purchase price. In August 2014, the New York Attorney General's office approved Alchemy's offering plan for condos at the newly branded Woolworth Tower Residences. The $110 million price tag for the building's penthouse unit is the highest asking price ever for an apartment in downtown Manhattan. At the building's completion, the F. W. Woolworth Company occupied only one and a half floors of the building, but, as the owner, profited from renting space out to others, including the Irving National Exchange Bank and"
"public. Banking in Australia is notable by the small number of large banks in the market. Much of this concentration is the result of bank acquisitions. English, Scottish and Australian Bank was acquired by the ANZ Bank in 1970. In 1982, Bank of New South Wales merged with the Commercial Bank of Australia to form Westpac. There were many other bank mergers and acquisitions throughout Australia's banking history. Beginning in the 1980s, several building societies sought to convert to banks, but were required to demutualise before they were permitted to do so. This included NSW Building Society, which became Advance"
"On 28 March 1927 the Western Australian Bank amalgamated with the Bank of New South Wales. The premises were enlarged and modernised in 1948. In 1982 the Bank of New South Wales changed its name to the Westpac Banking Corporation; in 1996 the building was occupied by Challenge Bank and from 2000 the Bendigo Bank. The building has been a continuously operating banking facility in Toodyay since it first opened in the late nineteenth century. It is a single storey rendered brick and tile roofed building with prominent painted brick chimneys. There is an extension to the rear with timbered"
"provider, N&P was also affiliated to Bankers' Automated Clearing Services and subscribed to the Lending Code. From 2001, its ATMs were operated by Moneybox Corporation. Yorkshire Building Society also operates under the trading names of Chelsea Building Society (since 2010, including the engagements of the former Catholic Building Society) and Egg (since 2011). The Yorkshire is a participant of the Financial Services Compensation Scheme; therefore, deposits with any of N&P, the Yorkshire, Chelsea and Egg were treated as linked for the purposes the scheme. The Norwich and Peterborough Group includes the following trading companies, which are wholly owned by the"
"the bancassurance model. In August 1996, Abbey National took over the National & Provincial Building Society, which was itself the product of a 1982 merger between the Provincial Building Society and the Burnley Building Society. This merger increased Abbey National's branch network by almost two hundred branches and brought in three million more customers. In April 2000, Abbey bought Porterbrook from Stagecoach Group for £773 million. Porterbrook was one of the three railway rolling stock operating companies created from by the privatisation of British Rail, leasing rolling stock to the train operating companies in the United Kingdom. The bank launched"